Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8085: שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H8085
Lemma
שָׁמַע
Transliteration
shâmaʻ
Pronunciation
shaw-mah'
Strong's definition
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.) [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness. a primitive root;

1071 instances of the word שָׁמַע shâmaʻ (H8085)


  • 1 Kings 10:7 - Howbeit I believed not the words until I came had seen and mine eyes was not told it and behold the half exceedeth me thy wisdom and prosperity the fame which I heard

  • 1 Kings 10:8 - Happy Happy are these thy servants which stand before continually thee and that hear thy wisdom

  • 1 Kings 10:24 - And all the earth sought to Solomon to hear his wisdom had put which God in his heart

  • 1 Kings 11:21 - And when Hadad heard in Egypt slept that David with his fathers was dead and that Joab the captain of the host said And when Hadad to Pharaoh Let me depart to mine own country

  • 1 Kings 11:38 - And it shall be if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee and wilt walk in my ways and do that is right in my sight to keep my statutes and my commandments and do as David my servant as I built house thee a sure as I built as David and will give Israel

  • 1 Kings 12:2 - heard And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat in Egypt of it (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon dwelt And it came to pass when Jeroboam in Egypt

  • 1 Kings 12:15 - hearkened Wherefore the king not unto the people for the cause was from the LORD that he might perform his saying spake was from the LORD by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat

  • 1 Kings 12:16 - now see O Israel hearkened that the king So not unto them the people that the king answered saying What portion David neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse to your tents O Israel now see to thine own house David O Israel to your tents

  • 1 Kings 12:20 - heard And it came to pass when all Israel was come again that Jeroboam that they sent and called him unto the congregation and made him king And it came to pass when all Israel there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah

  • 1 Kings 12:24 - Thus saith of the LORD Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel and returned every man to his house is according to the word from me They hearkened according to the word of the LORD and returned according to the word of the LORD

  • 1 Kings 13:4 - heard And it came to pass when king the saying of the man of God which had cried against the altar in Bethel that he put forth Jeroboam his hand against the altar saying Lay hold against him dried up his hand that he put forth so that he could not pull it in again

  • 1 Kings 13:26 - heard And when the prophet that brought him back from the way thereof he said It is the man of God who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD hath delivered of the LORD him unto the lion which hath torn him and slain him according to the word of the LORD which he spake

  • 1 Kings 14:6 - heard And it was so when Ahijah the sound of her feet Come in at the door that he said Come in thou wife of Jeroboam why feignest thou thyself to be another for I am sent to thee with heavy

  • 1 Kings 15:20 - hearkened So Benhadad unto king Asa and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel and smote Ijon and Dan and Abelbethmaachah and all Cinneroth with all the land of Naphtali

  • 1 Kings 15:21 - heard And it came to pass when Baasha thereof that he left off building of Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah

  • 1 Kings 15:22 - Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah none was exempted and they took away the stones of Ramah and the timber built thereof wherewith Baasha built Then king Asa with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah

  • 1 Kings 16:16 - heard And the people that were encamped say hath conspired Zimri and hath also slain the king king over Israel made Omri the captain of the host over Israel that day in the camp

  • 1 Kings 17:22 - heard And the LORD the voice of Elijah again and the soul of the child into him and he revived

  • 1 Kings 19:13 - heard And it was so when Elijah it that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering in of the cave And behold there came a voice unto him and said And it was so when Elijah

  • 1 Kings 20:8 - said And all the elders and all the people unto him Hearken not unto him nor consent